The Latest Breaking News from Judy Ryan

North Richmond safe-injecting room to be made permanent, Daniel Andrews announces

Premier Daniel Andrews says he will work with local residents still opposed to the North Richmond supervised-injecting facility, which a review finds has saved dozens of lives.

ABC News · Mar 6, 2023

A neighbourhood 'war zone' and a garden-gate overdose sparked Judy Ryan's fight for Victoria's first safe injecting room

Most of us don’t have people overdosing on drugs in our front garden. Judy Ryan did. In July 2016, Ryan found a young man slumped at her gate: one of her “regulars”, who often injected drugs in or around her Richmond property.

The Conversation · Mar 5, 2023

‘Something broke’: how an overdose at her back gate turned one Melbourne woman into an activist

Judy Ryan knew she had to do something to help her ‘beautiful’ inner-city community. She also knew it needed a safe injecting centre

The Guardian - AU · Feb 17, 2023